“The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Marietta, I do not believe in ghosts, astrology, palmistry, graphology, John Cage, love or God. I do believe in the moment, in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?' — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
